Basket-grate



J. LEWIS.

BASKET GRATE.

(No Model.)

Patented Nov. 10,1891.

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J OIIN LEIVIS, OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

BASKET-G RATE.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 463,061, dated November10, 1891.

Application filed May 6, 1891. Serial No. 391,790. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, residingat Nashville, in

.hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art .to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists in a new and improved hollow basket-grate, whichis formed of hollow pipes communicating with each other and so arrangedthat the basket-grate, while presenting the usual appearance andcontaining the fuel which heats the room in which it is located, isutilized for heating the water which circulates through every part ofit, the water when heated in the grate passing into a radiator inanother room to warm the said room, then passing back to the hollowbasket-grate, where it is again heated, and finally passes to abath-room or laundry.

My invention will be hereinafter fully described, and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective viewof my hollow basket-grate. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view throughthe same. Fig. 3 is a similar view taken at right angles to Fig. 1.

Referring to the several parts by their letters of reference, A Aindicate the rear upright legs, and B B the shorter front legs, of mybasket-grate, the said legs being formed of hollow pipes of suitablediameter.

0 indicates the front bars, consisting of hollow tubes, the ends ofwhich communicate with the front legs B. D D are the side bars, formed,also, of hollow pipes, the ends of which communicate respectively withthe hollow front and rear legs B A, and E indicates the rear bars of thegrate, formed of hollow tubes or pipes, the ends of which communicatewith the rear legs A of the basketgrate.

F G indicate the side and cross bars of an extension running out fromthe top of the grate, these bars F G being formed of hollow pipescommunicating with each other, as shown, and with the upper ends of therear legs A.

It will now be seen that my new and improved basket-grate is of thegeneral form and presents the external appearance of the ordinarybasket-grate, in which a fire is built for heating a room. The waterenters this hollow basket-grate through the inlet-pipe I and circulatesthrough the communicating pipes forming the grate, and as the pipes ofwhich the grate is composed are kept continuously and thoroughly heatedby the fire burning in the grate the water circulating through thehollow grate will beheated to a high degree. The hot water flows outfrom the hasket-grate through the pipe J, which leads from the upper endof the same, as shown, and then passes into aradiator or the like inanother room in the building, thus heating the same, and the water afterpassing through the radiator becomes partially cool and returns throughthe pipe K to the lapped pipes K at the back ofthe basket, where it isagain heated, and from which it passes through the pipe L to the placewhere it is finally discharged and used.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, it will be seen that by the use of my invention Ieffect a great saving both in fuel and in apparatus, the fuel, whichwould be used anyhow to heat the room in which the basket-grate islocated beinglikewise utilized to heat all of the hot water required forheating the room in which the radiator is located and for use in abathroom or laundry.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patcut, is

1. The combination, with a basket-grate formed of hollow communicatingtubes having a feed-pipe and an outlet-pipe, of the lapped pipes and thefeed and discharge pipes comm unicating therewith, substaniiall y as andfor the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the hollow rear and front legs A B, the hollowbars 0 D E, communicating with the front and rear legs, the extensions FG, formed of the tubes communicating with the rear legs, the feed-pipeI, and the outlet-pipe J, substantially as speci fied.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

.ronN LEWIS.

Witnesses:

J 0s. H. THOMPSON,

CLAUDE D. SULLIVAN.

